[rabbitmq-discuss] Messages ready and not delivered

Fri Aug 12 13:43:55 BST 2011

Hi Andrea,

On 12/08/11 10:51, Rosa, Andrea wrote:
> We are facing we a strange issue in an publisher/subscriber scenario, we
> have some queues with messages ready but not “consumed” by consumer.

Can you describe how to you are consuming the messages - are you using
synchronous (basic.get) or asynchronous (basic.consume) delivery?

Are you sure the queue contains messages? What does "rabbitmqctl
list_queues name messages_ready messages_unacknowledged consumers" return?

-Emile